Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard-working engineer. After this a proud little ponyish Yorkshire engine that panted first in 1831 puffed slowly down the tracks. The General was there, an engine of the old Western & Atlantic R. R., bearing the scars of Civil War battles-battles in which it had brought powder and shot, in which it had been captured by the Confederates and recaptured by the Boys in Blue. There was a Wells-Fargo express stagecoach which had once carried gold-dust from the San Francisco mining camps. There were, great behemoths, now in use to pull freight or passengers...
...Letter. When the curtain rises the sound of a shot is heard and a cry from Hammond. Leslie fires again...
...spun the bitter story of a planter's lonely wife on the Malay Peninsula. There is no moral pointed, except perhaps that love sometimes dies young and for no reason. Leslie Crosbie was not a wholly vicious woman. Throughout the story, which ends in her confession that she shot her lover Hammond because he was living with a Chinese woman, she strangles truth lest her husband find out her guilt and the discovery break his heart. After the first few moments her every move is to spare from sorrow this faithful husband, whom she does not love. Truth breaks...
...itself is a cell of drama. Many more embryo plots sneak in through the front door, the back door, down the stairway, or just happen in the alleyway outside. They tangle themselves into a swarm of ugly, writhing life, sticky and sordid, grimy with bitter wisecracks and cruelly shot through with flashes of vagrant, tender beauty...
...Oppenheim's homes are on the French Riviera (Cagnes) and in London. Without professing to be a prophet, he notes that he foretold the Boer War in one novel, the World War in 14 novels. He was said to be on a list of Londoners to be shot at once when the Germans should conquer England, whose Intelligence Service he assisted...